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Britain’s Foreign Office wimps surrender to Israeli thugs

By Stuart Littlewood – 17 December 2009

The British public must be wondering what has happened to the nation’s backbone – and its moral compass – when they see news items like these.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday apologized to MK [Member of the Knesset] Tzipi Livni and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman for the arrest warrant issued against Livni in London earlier this week. He also promised Lieberman to begin working immediately to change the UK laws that enable the issue of arrest warrants against Israeli officials accused of war crimes.

Who does this foreign secretary think he is, apologizing in our name for the operation of British law, especially when the warrant was issued to answer well-founded charges of war crimes?

Livni claims it was not personal. “It’s about the entire State of Israel and our ability to go on working together against common threats.”

What common threats? We have nothing in common. The threats Israel faces are caused by its racist expansion, land theft, general lawlessness and hateful attitude towards its neighbours, and by the lethal threat Israel itself presents to others in the region. Our government puts us in harm’s way by associating so closely with the regime and continually taking its side.

As for former night club bouncer Lieberman, a deranged loudmouth who lives in an illegal Jewish settlement in the Palestinian West Bank and thrives on extremist language, since when did he merit a British apology?

Miliband called the warrant intolerable and said he had spoken to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Justice Minister Jack Straw to find an urgent solution. Prosor [the Israeli ambassador in London] chastised the British secretary saying it was time the British government took action.

Prosor “chastised” a Minister of the Crown and demanded a change to our laws? Your own laws need changing more than ours, Prosor.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office also released a statement: “We will not agree to a situation in which [former Prime Minister] Ehud Olmert, [Defence Minister] Ehud Barak and [opposition leader and former Foreign Minister] Tzipi Livni will be summoned to the bench. We utterly reject the absurdity that is happening in Britain.”

Get your tanks off Palestine’s lawn, Netanyahu, and your squatters off Palestinian land before you criticize anyone else.

The Israelis’ arrogance is breath-taking. Livni would gladly repeat the atrocities in Gaza last December-January. Her office issued a statement saying she was proud of Operation Cast Lead. And speaking at a conference at Tel Aviv’s Institute for Security Studies, she said: ”I would today take the same decisions.”

Leave the law on arrest warrants alone

Miliband’s grovelling, especially to the Lieberman and Livni, is enough to make any red-blooded UK citizen cringe with shame. Few of us, surely, would touch these people with a barge-pole.

This abandonment of principle and descent into the abyss is explained in the Foreign Office statement: “The UK is determined to be a strategic partner of Israel.”

Why? I have always wanted to know how this serves our best interests.

The law on arrest warrants, of course, should be left undisturbed. It’s all quite simple. If Israel behaved in a civilized manner there would be no need for them.

This diplomatic ruckus helps us to see clearly the lunacy of stacking the British Foreign Office with Israel-lovers. There’s Miliband, of course, with his ethnic links. He voted enthusiastically for the Iraq war and against an investigation.

Then there’s our minister in charge of Middle East affairs, Ivan Lewis. He’s a former vice-chairman of Labour Friends of Israel. He too voted for the Iraq war and against any investigation. In January, with the sickening stench of Israel’s blitzkrieg on Gaza in the world’s nostrils, Lewis told a rally in Manchester: “This community stands shoulder to shoulder with the people of Israel in the good and the bad times. We do not apply double standards to Israel…”

The trouble is, his kind don’t apply any standards at all.

In July, with the blood of 1,400 dead Gazans (including 320 children and 109 women) on the hands of the Zionist devils, and with thousands more horribly maimed, the insensitive Lewis told the House of Commons: “Israel is a close ally of the UK and we have regular warm and productive exchanges at all levels.”

Lewis is also chief executive of the Manchester Jewish Federation and a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust. Along with Miliband, he is the face of British diplomacy in the explosive Middle East.

Add to the team Miliband’s Principal Private Secretary, Matthew Gould, just promoted as Britain’s first Jewish ambassador to Israel with effect from next year. Gould told Haaretz that he and his wife will keep a Jewish household and bring up their kids in the Jewish tradition.

The fact that I’m Jewish means I will come with a particular insight and sympathy and understanding, because the story of my family is in certain respects the story of the people of the State of Israel. But fundamentally I’m going as the British ambassador, to pursue British policies and advance British interests.

That’s difficult to believe, and some will point to a hopeless conflict of interests not only for Gould but also Miliband, Lewis and others who feel an affinity with the appalling “story” of Israel.

Presiding over all this is our disaster-prone prime minister, Gordon Brown, a Zionist sympathizer and patron of the Jewish National Fund, which is an organization set up to facilitate the confiscation and development of illegally occupied Palestinian lands.

As if to illustrate just how far Britain will go to appease Israel’s “Criminal Tendency”, the Jewish Chronicle reported a few days ago how the Foreign Office stamped on an initiative by the Department for Communities and Local Government to reassure the Muslim community that the British government did not support Israel’s actions in Gaza. Foreign Office officials considered it pandering to the Muslim community’s prejudices about Israel, especially when it was discovered that some Muslim leaders around the country wanted the government to recognize Hamas’s right to armed resistance. Tut-tut. Oh dear, no. Everybody knows that only Israel is entitled to self-defence. And Britain panders only to Israel.

British Jewish MP Sir Gerald Kaufman recently threw a bucket of cold water over this obscene Anglo-Israeli love-in by branding the Israeli government a gang of amoral thugs. These are the undesirables Miliband wants to accommodate with a change in the law. Well, I doubt if the British public would welcome the idea of such vile people, who think nothing of burning women and children to the bone with white phosphorus, coming and going as they please in our capital city.

These same thugs won’t even allow thousands of Palestinian students like Berlanty Azzam the freedom to travel within their own homeland to attend university and finish their degree.

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All your governments belong to us. UK, US, France and Germany. No sovereign would tolerate any other nation running its affairs, but for the Jews, it’s different. They get their own state and everyone else’s, too. Such a deal.

War criminals of the world (except those of the brown or black-skinned variety)welcome to Zionist-controlled Britain. All you will have to worry about is which bank to choose to park your ill-gotten money.

Will the policy change under the expected Tory government when this bunch of traitors is kicked out? The simple answer is no. Both parties genuflect before the mother of all terrorist nations – that unholy piece of land that Britain helped steal for them.

(PS. I’m pissed off with the popup ads on this site. which have made it difficult to type these comments. Does anyone pay attention to pop up ads these days?).

do not understand how Israel can have so much influence in the Western democracies to lick the Israeli boot. Have no western leaders any integrity at all? My guess is that if Israel is so violent publically, then it must be just as violent privately and that it has credible violent threats against individual leaders and high officials of the western democracies. Basically Israel has an almost literal gun to the head of our leaders. Our leaders seem afraid to go against Israeli wishes. This Israel is a very dangerous country to the whole world and they have many nuclear bombs. Western leaders have already shown they are craven and scared shitless of Israeli politicians and it seems its really up to the common people themselves to rid their countries of the evil Israeli parasite.

It’s becoming clear how the ‘matrix’ – the system – works, and how the Internet is the leaky bucket out of which the truth is flying.

Since the early goldsmiths discovered fractional lending and made money out of thin air (predatory lending), they have been thrown out of every courntry they set up in, after which those countries returned to resource-based economies and went through several decades of economic recovery.

Until the sixteenth century, in Holland.

Then and there, when the goldsmiths were discovered, the already wealthy government and merchant classes joined them in their usurious detours, the first full “collusion among corporatocracy, authoritarian government, and controlled media and education.”
Add bankers to that list and you have the recipe for the last three hundred years of fascist fiscal theft through market manipulation.

Holland was the site of the first experiment in money market manipulation, today called ‘Tulip Mania’, also a generic phrase given to an ‘out-of-control’ Bull Market.

‘Tulip Mania’ is however, just the opposite – it’s a controlled boom situation; controlled by those who run the Great Wealth Shift every generation, starting with the South Sea Bubble crash in 1720.

Every fifty years or so since then, the markets have peaked – and exactly nine years later, crashed – followed by a depression during which, bracketed by expensive wars, vast amounts of properties were foreclosed and the ‘masters’ transfered huge amounts of the wealth accumulated by the working class – “all wealth is created by work” (Adam Smith) – who were left to starve.

Just like today.

Later, both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated after introducing sovereign currencies, which were quickly removed from circulation after the killings.

What happened to Schwartzenegger’s IOUs? They were de facto sovereign currency paid back on maturity by the state at a 3.75% interest.

The American Colonies, with their debt- and interest-free sovereign currency called Colonial Scrip were doing very prosperously in the 1700’s until the British Banking Act of 1775 forbade its use. Two years later the colonies were in a depression and declared independence from Great Britain’s financial oppression.

The most significant leak in Ellen Brown’s ‘Web of Debt’ is coming from the Global Warming lies now out in the open.

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I am in total agreeement. Personally I think the Israelis are holding our government officials to blackmail.
Israeli spy rings are very active and successful in the US.It is KNOWN that “Mega” is still at large in the US policy making dept but for some reason no-one is looking for him!!This is the same spys that sold military secrets to China! The ONLY reason must be blaokmail. Politions have either taken large amounts of money or slept with the wrong person and been filmed or are being blackmailed with 911 or Iraq war evidence of treason and war crimes.The worst case senario is that these poltions actually believe in an old man in the sky that made a property deal with god chosen master race!! If this is the case they are unfit for office and should be removed from office for being mentally delusional!They should be LAUGHED OUT OF OFFICE!!!
Would we be happy with our politions holding dual Vatican passports or what about clearing everything with the Saudi King before we decide what best for UK citizens!
THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!
Our politions are TRAITORS!
These war crimes laws where perfectly good for German war criminals.But to show the power of the Israel lobby , Maggie Thatcher could NOT get the laws of our land changed for her best buddy Pinochet, how come suddenly its possible when Israelis are involved?!
The Americans were responsible for creation of a gangster state headed by an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders,” – Sir John Troutbeck wrote in his letter to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin on June 2, 1948.

“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”

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